Batman is known in almost everyone by being one of the better super heroes in the history of the comic. Nevertheless it it is not in Turkey, where him is recognized for its historic wealth and natural beauty. In the case of Turkey does not continue speaking of the same personage of fiction, neither we are neither mentioning to Gothic City, but we are speaking of the city predominantly Kurd to the southeast of the country.
Batman is the name of the river that crosses the city and besides the capital of the province of the same name to the north of the province of Anatolia. The city is also known like Elih or Iluh in Kurd language. Its so private name is an abbreviation of “Mountains of Bati Raman” and currently the capital harbors 246.700 inhabitants. The total population in the province they add 518.000 inhabitants approximately. In the year 1950, the city was still a small village until the petroleum companies began to operate in the city what brought with himself a great development. The population grew with the transfer of many workers and civil servants. There cheap hotels can be obtained.
This Turkish city, in which today is a mayor Huseyin Kalkan member of the Party Democratic Company, is the first refinery of every Turkey, based on the year 1955. This fact has permitted him to be become an important zone production company of petroleum. They are 494 kilometers the ones that has the pipeline that transports crude oil of the city of Batman toward Iskenderun. Their main media of transportation are the railroad close to Kurtalan that connects to the city with the capital one Istanbul. Besides, counts on a regional airport. The main agricultural activity represents it the industry algodonera. Nevertheless, the city confronts a great problem: the high index of unemployment.
The natural beauty of the city falls in the Mountains of Taurun and besides also possesses interesting archaeological places as the Tomb of Veysal Karani -renowned Islamic thinker- the Mosque of Carsi, the Bridge of Camiur Rizk and the most important one of all: the old city of Hasankeyf, in which themselves nine civilizations left their track. In the year 1981 was named area of natural conservation.
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